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Strictly Come Dancing’s Danny John-Jules has revealed how he was forced to pull out of rehearsals following an injury.

Speaking ahead of the first live show on Saturday (22 September), the Red Dwarf star and his partner Amy Dowden said rehearsals were temporarily halted after an all-day session resulted in swollen feet.

‘Mother Nature’s having a bit of a dig at me,’ Danny told The Mirror. ‘I had to bandage my toes.’

Danny John-Jules is suffering from swollen feet (Picture: Getty)

Dance partner Amy stopped their vigorous foxtrot rehearsals after noticing he was ‘hobbling’ around the studio, saying: ‘I was telling him he needed to put his feet up.’

Danny and Amy are set to dance the foxtrot to Hoyt Curtin’s Top Cat theme, which could be a not-so-subtle nod to his role as Cat in Red Dwarf.